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Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy III
A degenerative disorder of nerves with progressive spasticity of the legs. Abbreviated as AD-HSP. Spasticity is a state of increased muscle tone. Paraplegia refers to the legs (quadriplegia refers to both the arms and legs). In hereditary…
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- Polyp A mass of tissue that develops on the inside wall of a hollow organ, as within the colon or rectum. The word…
- Cornea The clear front window of the eye that transmits and focuses light into the eye. Although the cornea is clear…
- Incontinence, urinary Incontinence, urinary: The unintentional loss of urine. Inability to hold urine in the bladder due to loss of…
- Fibulin 3 A protein that belongs to a family of extracellular proteins expressed in the basement membranes of blood…
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- Ear The hearing organ. There are three sections of the ear, according to the anatomy textbooks. They are the…
- Ambiguous genitalia Genitalia that are neither typically female nor typically male. Also known as intersexual genitalia. Girls…
- Syndrome, Shulman's (Eosinophilic fasciitis) A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue…
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